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User Tutorial - Learning about Data Entry

Pedro is an application that produces data entry forms for a data
model that is specified in a particular style of XML Schema. If
you're only going to do data entry with the tool, don't worry about schemas
because you should never have to see one. The lessons below are designed for people who will only be doing data
entry with the tool.

Pedro was originally developed for the proteomics community and we
ship their data model for those scientists to use. To Pedro however, the data model
could be about proteomics, botany,
chemistry, or about your favourite bird calls or comic books!
This tutorial however uses
a mock data model for patient medical records. Why talk about medical records if
the application was originally targetting
another field? We
intentionally used a different tutorial model for the following reasons:

we don't want to make your experience learning about the tool more
complicated by forcing you to learn about a complicated data model

using a live data model for a tutorial is a bad idea, because if
the data model changes, the text and screen shots have to
change also.

we want to demonstrate that this is a generic tool that can handle data
models from completely different fields.